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Although a wide range of specialized tools and algorithms are available, researchers often rely on trial-and-error approaches to select suitable analytical workflows, compromising both efficiency and reproducibility. In this study, we systematically benchmarked hundreds of algorithms-preprocessing combinations across three common biomedical data challenges, including small sample sizes, missing values, and class imbalance. Our results show that tree-based models (e.g. Gradient Boosting Decision Tree, XGBoost, and Random Forest) consistently perform well in scenarios involving small-sample and missing-data, while partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) is more effective in addressing imbalanced classes. Unsupervised cluster methods such as K-means and Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) remain robust under moderate missingness, but their performance declines when missingness exceeds 10%. To support data-driven decision-making, we developed SysML, a web-based platform that recommends data-adaptive workflows based on dataset-specific characteristics. Validated on multiple real-world biomedical datasets, SysML demonstrated improvements in both model performance and workflow efficiency. 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